DB Fishing - Advanced Fishing Simulator for FiveM

DB Fishing turns fishing into a complete gameplay loop with gear progression, dynamic market economy, tournaments, leaderboards, and automated nets — all with a modern NUI and framework-agnostic bridge.

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🔥 Key Features

🎣 Skill-Based Minigame

Reel, fight, and land fish using a responsive NUI minigame. Rod and reel stats affect speed and difficulty for a satisfying progression curve.

🧰 Equipment System

Build your setup and upgrade over time:

- Rods with unique stats and specials (chance, zone size, reel speed)

- Reels, lines, and baits as attachable components with metadata

- Attach components directly to your rod via an in-game menu

- Full shop UI with categories, affordability checks, and clean UX

🐟 Species & Weights

Catch a wide range of fish species with realistic weight ranges and rarity tiers. Biggest catches are tracked and persisted.

🛒 Dynamic Fish Market

Sell fish for cash with live prices affected by supply and demand:

- Price fluctuation, demand colors, and trend indicators

- Price impact from player sales (anti-hoarding scalers)

- Top Earners leaderboard sourced from actual sales

🏆 Leaderboards

Two competitive ladders to drive engagement:

- Record Catches: species name and top weight (persisted)

- Top Earners: total money earned from fishing

🏁 Tournaments

Host fishing tournaments with prizes and ranks:

- Admin commands to start tournaments

- Join flow with UI feedback

- Scoring based on weight and rarity multipliers

- Real-time tournament HUD and notifications

🪤 Fishing Nets

Automate catches with placeable, baitable nets:

- Bait, durability, capacity, and timed catch cycles

- Manage via ox_target or on-screen prompts

- Collect fish and maintain nets directly in-game

🖥️ Polished NUI

- Modern React UI with glass panels and animations

- Localized text with runtime language injection

- Top-center notifications with soft background styling

- Mugshot integration for player profile displays

### 🔒 Security & Anti-Abuse

- Session validation and minimum time between casts

- Movement checks while fishing

- Server-side item verification on catch

🔧 Compatibility

- Frameworks: ESX Legacy, QBCore, QBox

- Inventories: Ox Inventory (first-class), ESX/QB defaults supported

- Notifications: ox_lib with fallbacks to ESX/QB

- Database: oxmysql

- Interaction: ox_target or text-based prompts

### 📡 Logging & Webhooks

Optional Discord webhook logs for catches, sales, purchases, and tournaments.

🗺️ Quality of Life

- Shop blip with label and styling

- Shop ped interaction via target/text prompts

- Escrow ignore for config, bridges, and UI for easy customization

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💻 Technical Specifications

- Persistent stats and market via MySQL

- Defensive client/server coding to avoid NUI crashes

- Optimized timers and threads for low runtime usage

- Clean separation of concerns: market, tournaments, nets, core